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Post June 9th, 2006, 10:13 pm

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so I'm havin trouble getting my fdd to work properly. when I put a disk in, it doesn't recognize it. its also very wierd because even when I had physically disconnected the drive, it still showed that there was a drive connect in windows. it seems my mobo is reading it correctly though because it doesn't detect it when its disconnected (thankfully).

also, the media I tested it with works on another fdd, so I'm sure its either the thing itself or somethin with a driver or somethin
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Post June 9th, 2006, 10:38 pm

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if you build your own computer, odds are you'd know who made your motherboard allowing you to get updates from em, and right now, I'm in a situation where I need to update my BIOS

Post June 10th, 2006, 12:26 am

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^umm.... yeaaaa, pretty sure I have the right cable plugged in since the thing only came with one fdd cable. trust me, I've checked the connections and tested as much as I could. I just got it out to see who it was made by, and so now I'm gonna go to their site and see if I can get this worked out. And my mobo is made by Soltek, and their site is absolute crap. the page that displays the info about the model I have doesn't even exist anymore, soooo I think I'd be better off goin to the Alps site

Post June 10th, 2006, 12:31 am

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but right now the Alps site doesn't seem to be working for the page I'm trying to go to...... god dam

Post June 10th, 2006, 1:58 am

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my computer doesnt have a floppy drive.
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Post June 10th, 2006, 12:51 pm
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That motherboard company isn't reputable, and why bother with FDD Anyway? IDE Optical drives are the way to go ...

Post June 11th, 2006, 6:10 pm

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Floppy drives will be around for ages. Although you can boot from a CD-ROM on a modern PC you still need a flooppy if you want to write some data from CMOS like BIOS.


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